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August 28, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

The common law can provide all rules necessary to sustain a peaceful, prosperous, liberal society.

August 28, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is […]

August 18, 2024

Common Law Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

July 6, 2023 • The Hill

On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right

By John Hasnas

By John Hasnas Is the Supreme Court’s ruling on SFFA v. Harvard a good decision? Well, yes and no. It’s a great decision with regard to the University of North Carolina and […]

February 16, 2022 • National Review

How Georgetown Is Stifling Speech on Campus

By John Hasnas

The university is implementing the academic analog of a SLAPP suit against Ilya Shapiro. How do you stifle unpopular speech at a place like Georgetown University whose policy states that […]

February 6, 2022 • Wall Street Journal

Why College’s Don’t Care About Free Speech

By John Hasnas

It’s incentives more than ideology, and there’s a simple fix.

July 20, 2021 • Amazon

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason BrennanWilliam EnglishJohn HasnasPeter Jaworski

A clear and concise roadmap for ethical business behavior using commonsense moral principles.

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December 24, 2019 • Georgetown Law

The Real Danger of the Responsibility Surplus

By John Hasnas

The Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine permits the criminal punishment of an executive who neither participated in nor was aware of a criminal offense commi

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June 1, 2018 • Springer Publishing

Should Corporations Have the Right to Vote? A Paradox in the Theory of Corporate Moral Agency

By John Hasnas

In his 2007 Ethics article, “Responsibility Incorporated,” Philip Pettit argued that corporations qualify as morally responsible agents because they possess aut

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June 1, 2018 • Springer Publishing

Reflections on Prince, Public Welfare Offenses, American Cyanamid, and the Wisdom of the Common Law

By John Hasnas

The fundamental requirement of Anglo-American criminal law is that crime must consist of the concurrence of a guilty mind—a mens rea—with a guilty act—an actus

June 1, 2018 • Georgetown Law

The Quest for a Diverse Faculty: Theory and Practice

By John Hasnas

For the past half century, universities and professional schools have been on a quest for the academic analog of the Holy Grail—a diverse faculty.

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June 1, 2018 • Philosophy Documentation Center

Corporations and Voting: A Response to Kenneth Silver

By John Hasnas

In his thoughtful Commentary on my article, “Should Corporations Have the Right to Vote? A Paradox in the Theory of Corporate Moral Agency,”

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June 1, 2018 • Iowa Law Review

Clockwork Corporations: A Valiant Effort to Do the Impossible

By John Hasnas

It is a genuine pleasure to be invited to comment on Mahailis Diamantis’s excellent article, Clockwork Corporations: A Character Theory of Corporate Punishment.

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May 30, 2018 • Springer Publishing

Introduction to the Symposium on Crime Without Fault

Edited by John Hasnas

Public Welfare Offenses are crimes that do not require mens rea. Originally limited to regulatory offenses that carried only small penalties, over the decades

March 8, 2018 • Social Science Research Network

Freedom of Expression at the Private University

By John Hasnas

Private universities are not bound by the First Amendment, which restrains only state action.

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January 1, 2018 • Research Gate

The Corruption of the Rule of Law

By John Hasnas

The corruption of the rule of law is an ambiguous phrase.

June 1, 2017 • PhilPapers

Does Corporate Moral Agency Entail Corporate Freedom of Speech?

By John Hasnas

In Citizens United, the Supreme Court held that corporate speech is entitled to the protection of the First Amendment.

June 1, 2017 • Taylor & Francis Research Insights

The Problem of Punishment

By John Hasnas

This chapter suggests that, in a liberal society, the problem of punishment is not identifying the purpose of criminal punishment, but determining whether crimi

March 1, 2017 • Oxford Academic

The Phantom Menace of the Responsibility Deficit

By John Hasnas

The strongest argument for the conclusion that corporations should be held morally responsible for their actions has been advanced by Philip Pettit.

March 31, 2016 • Wall Street Journal

The One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid

By John Hasnas

Many universities are redoubling their efforts to diversify their faculties in response to last fall’s wave of protests from student groups representing women a

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March 15, 2016 • The Hill

Nudging Voters

By John Hasnas

A perennial complaint about our democracy is that too large a portion of the electorate is poorly informed about important political issues.

February 24, 2016 • Social Science Research Network

Some Noodging About Nudging: Four Questions About Libertarian Paternalism

By John Hasnas

This is an introductory essay prepared to open the 2015 Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics symposium on "The Ethics of Nudging."

November 21, 2015 • Fortune

The Surprising Obstacle Mizzou and Yale Face in Increasing Diversity

By John Hasnas

Last week, the president of the University of Missouri resigned amid student protests that he had not done enough to address racist incidents on campus.

January 23, 2015 • Cambridge University

The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed

By John Hasnas

The three leading normative theories of business ethics are the stockholder theory, the stakeholder theory, and the social contract theory.

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January 23, 2015 • Cambridge University

Up From Flatland: Business Ethics in the Age of Divergence

By John Hasnas

The corporate scandals of the past few years have brought renewed attention to the problem of curtailing dishonest and fraudulent business practices, a problem

January 23, 2015 • JSTOR

New Directions in Legal Scholarship: Implications for Business Ethics Research, Theory, and Practice

By John Hasnas

Legal scholars and business ethicists are interested in many of the same core issues regarding human and firm behavior.

June 1, 2014 • Semantics Scholar

A Context for Evaluating Department of Justice Policy on the Prosecution of Business Organizations: Is the Department of Justice Playing in the Right Ballpark?

By John Hasnas

Federal criminal law permits the prosecution of business organizations for crimes committed by their employees acting within the scope of their employment with

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March 15, 2014 • Social Science Research Network

Lobbying and Self-Defense

By John Hasnas

Lobbying consists in the effort to influence the decision of government policy makers.

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February 12, 2014 • Cambridge University

Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?

By John Hasnas

This essay argues that there can be a duty to obey the law when it is produced by the evolutionary forces at work in the customary and common law.

September 17, 2013 • HuffPost

Out of the Mouths of Babes

By John Hasnas

Those engaged in political disputation will often assert that what they contend "is so obvious that even a child can see it."